Tim Duncan doesn’t want a retirement tour. He doesn’t want your rocking chairs, he’s not feeling your plaques and pregame ceremonies, and he doesn’t want to wave goodbye to your home crowd. He might take a motorcycle, but that’s about it.
Only two NBA players have enjoyed an admitted-to retirement tour over the last quarter century, and rightfully so: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan were the best players of their generations. Tim Duncan, in the post-MJ era, is without peer, and he deserves the same sort of 41-road game fete. less